Snowboarding in Flims, yesterday.
Not pictured: the f-f-f-freezing cold (taking wind chill into account: -20 °C/-4 °F)
Who would have thought… after all these years I’m using this kind of tools again. Awesome.
Tree branch is grilled on a high voltage overhead line and a beautiful light arc emerges before current is interrupted. That’s what they have circuit breakers for ;)
See, my field of research is useful!
I’d rather work for Heckler & Koch than for Facebook.
– My colleague expressing his feelings towards Facebook upon discovering that they keep your e-mail address even if you’re not a member. After a discussion about how it’s super uncool to work for a tobacco company and even worse to work in the defence industry.
The organ in Zurich’s Tonhalle (concert hall). I’m now officially a fan of organs. The bigger, the better, so this one’s quite good.
Photo credits: dad
GPOYW: playing the organ at the wedding of two friends. I had such a good weekend.
Signing up
In a little “let’s get some things done” rage, I signed up for
- Laufsporttag Winterthur, an 11K race in March
- The SOLA relay race in May, 117K with teams of 14; I’ll probably take this leg (13K) again
- The “Internationale Vierdaagse Afstandmarsen Nijmegen” in The Netherlands in July (Nijmegen Four Days Marches), 4x40K with the army. Probably the last time with a delegation of the Swiss Armed Forces :(
All I have to do now is a bit of training here and there.
The CubeStormer, a Lego MindStorms robot, solves any 3x3x3 Rubik’s cube in less than 12 seconds.
On the occasion of the sensational tie against Canada (fine, we lost after penalties) on Thursday, here’s a less glorious story from the past of Swiss ice hockey: Philippe Furrer scores the 3:0 for Russia with a slap shot. He’s not really Russian, by the way.
Love the commentary ;)
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My name is Benjamin. I live in Zurich and work as an "associated scientist" for a cool Swiss company in one of their corporate research centers, and this is my outlet for random stuff.
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